Nukhet A. Sandal

Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation (eBook, PDF)

Northern Ireland and Beyond

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Religious dimension of contemporary conflicts and the rise of faith-based movements worldwide require policymakers to identify the channels through which religious leaders can play a constructive role. While religious fundamentalisms are in the news every day, we do not hear about the potential and actual role of religious actors in creating a peaceful and just society. Countering this trend, Sandal draws attention to how religious actors helped prepare the ground for stabilizing political initiatives, ranging from abolition of apartheid (South Africa), to the signing of the Lome Peace Agreement (Sierra Leone). Taking Northern Ireland as a basis and using declarations and speeches of more than forty years, this book builds a new perspective that recognizes the religious actors' agency, showing how religious actors can have an impact on public opinion and policymaking in today's world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108216647
• Artikelnr.: 47703705

Autorenporträt

Nukhet A. Sandal is the Director of War and Peace Studies, and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio University. Her work on religion, foreign policy and divided societies has appeared in the European Journal of International Relations, International Politics, Review of International Studies, Alternatives, Political Studies, West European Politics, Human Rights Quarterly, and the Canadian Journal of Political Science. She is co-author of Religion in International Relations Theory: Interactions and Possibilities (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Religious actors and conflict transformation: theory and practice
2. Situating religious actors in Irish history
3. Churches in 'troubles': leaders, institutions and political involvement
4. From diagnosis to treatment: devising an inclusive public theology of citizenship
5. Public theology of inclusive governance: peace deals and political agreements
6. Religious epistemic communities in a post-conflict setting
7. Beyond Northern Ireland: religious expertise and conflict transformation
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index.